This was the age of reason and enlightenment where science was fitting the heavens into the clockwork precision of mechanical, mathematical laws. |
Once a year, like clockwork, the Old Delhi dam is opened, flooding the dry riverbeds. |
Inventor Trevor Baylis had spent years trying to raise finance for his wind-up clockwork radio. |
If you doubt the power of the aesthetics of clockwork, look at the prices in a smart watchmaker's shop. |
A mouse runs up the side of a sack like a clockwork toy, then suddenly stops dead and watches me with his little eyes like tiny jet beads. |
Later, European Jesuits such as Matteo Ricci and Nicolas Trigault would briefly mention indigenous Chinese clockworks that featured drive wheels. |